Word: vapidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have had it with aristocracies. Corrupt, sleek, lascivious queer or cruel, Italian, French or Spanish, they all amount to the same thing on the screen: vacuity writ large. But the most banal set of all lives in Argentina. Its members are as vapid, unsophisticated and coarse a covey of brightly feathered birds as I have seen in film. Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (director of End of Innocence) records their antics in Summerskin, a cheap and pretentious story in the worst possible taste...
...Unique Force. Yet the final mood of Marilyn Monroe is embarrassment. First taken by the world only as a vapid comedienne, she strove to become both an actress and an intellectual, and in death somehow became something more. As the London Daily Mail noted, her death has "impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure." The arid, senseless argument that follows it-suicide or accident?-only heightens the general shame in a quibble over whether a token of death amounts to death itself. To say that she died while trying to live (the hand on the telephone) only avoids the issue...
...back to New York, leaving the Senator pondering his persistent question: Why does television pander so to sex and violence? Last week Senator Dodd wanted to know what CBS-TV President James Aubrey had in mind in an interoffce memo asking for more "broads, bosoms and fun" in the vapid Route 66 series. Aubrey was cool. Outsiders did not understand what the industry meant by sex. "I've heard it used in every connotation from mother-and-child scenes to the way an actress walks." With that in mind, Aubrey said, it would be "quite easy" for people...
...Kerr, Taubman, and John McClain of the Journal-American) against three positives (Watts, Chapman, and Robert Coleman of the Mirror), with the World-Telegram's Norman Nadel hanging in the air. Said the real Kerr: "Limp." Quoth the real Taubman: "Stumbles as if suffering from somnambulism...dull and vapid...
...events. Finding a toothbrush, she brushes her teeth punctiliously. She swigs some pink pep medicine, kisses an evilly glinting revolver and dons a perkily feathered hat. "These things tide one over," she says. Her talkfest acquires a haunting reflective cadence as it flows between the vapid ("Keep yourself nice, Winnie, that's what I always say") and the apocalyptic ("Do you think the earth has lost its atmosphere, Willie?"). The falling curtain leaves her with plenty...